National Payment Network Selects The Impact Group as Biweekly PartnerOctober 19, 2007

Dulles, VA (Date) – The Impact Group (Impact), a leader in Web-based F&I presentation software, announces a recent agreement with National Payment Network (NPN), a leading bi-weekly payment provider. With this agreement, Impact will incorporate NPN’s bi-weekly loan acceleration product into Impact’s FUSION™, as well as privately branded versions of the FUSION™ application.

Impact’s new bi-weekly presentation interface guarantees that the NPN product will be offered to every qualifying dealership customer. An array of interactive tools has been developed to support the sale of NPN’s program, and to therefore dramatically increase bi-weekly enrollment penetration.

“The NPN capability will provide an immediate benefit for our participating dealerships. These new presentation tools are designed to simplify the NPN sale and make it easy for the business manager to successfully close on additional F&I products,” said Mark Thorpe, Impact’s President. “After evaluating the strength of their program and technology, we felt that NPN would be the perfect partner for this project.”

“NPN is excited to add The Impact Group to its growing list of marquee distribution partners. The Impact Group has done a tremendous job integrating NPN’s service in a way that really helps dealers boost penetration rates across all F&I products. Dealers that use the bi-weekly payment feature within FUSION will see a tremendous improvement in profits, trade-in cycles, and customer retention”, said Ged Connolly, Vice President of Business Development for National Payment Network, Inc.

Founded in 1988, The Impact Group, Inc. is a nationally recognized automotive software development firm that services the finance & insurance industry. Impact specializes in increasing profitability and customer satisfaction through cutting-edge web technologies and a unique approach to the F&I department. Impact’s programs include a robust, qualitative reporting module, certified DMS interface, electronic submission to administrators, and real time vehicle service contract rating. Impact provides custom development services for OEM's, third party administrators, and general agents. For additional information on Impact’s products and services, please visit www.theimpactgroup.com.